Method of treating sharpening-stones or hones



TED srmrns FRANK MCCORMICK, OF MAGNOLIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF FORTY-FIVE ONE- HUNDREDTHS TO LEWIS WOLF AN D TEN ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, BOTH OF McNABIB, ILLINOIS.

METHOD OF TREATING SHARPENING-STONES OR BONES.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK McConMrcx, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the town of Magnolia, county of Putnam, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Treating Sharpening-Stones or Hones, of which the followin 'is'a specification. v

y invention relates to an improved method for use in the treatment of sharpening stones and hones such as are used especially in the sharpening and honing of razor blades, or has for its object the production of a method the employment of which will render the stone or hone treated better adapted to serve the fimction for which the same is intended.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The stone or hone which is to be treated is first covered with warm thick lather 4 which is permitted to remain upon the same 85 It has been found that a sharpening stone Patented Au 22, 1916.

or hone which is treated in this manner is rendered more effective and better adapted for readily and uickly putting a sharp edge upon a razor lade or the like.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The herein described method of treating a sharpening stone or hone which con- .sists in first treating the same with warm lather; then applying a coat of abrasive metal thereto; then treating the same with warm Vaseline; then applying powdered pumice and emery dust thereto; and then heating the same until dry, substantially as described.

2. The herein described method of treating a sharpening stone or hone which consists in first treating the same with warm lather; then rubbing a piece of soft steel thereon; then treating the same with Warm Vaseline; then applying powdered pumice and emery dust thereto; and then heating the same until dry, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses GEo. W. DITMAN,

HARRY W. HENDERSON. 

